Light Reading

Crunchyroll has announced that Friday at 7:30 a.m. it will begin simulcasting the Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra anime based on the light novel series by Ishio Yamagata.
In a world where the dead are transformed into books…
When a person dies, the body is divested of the soul, and when the soul departs from its [...]

Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe won it last year, and this year another children’s novel translated from Japanese is the proud recipient of the:

Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the most outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English for [...]

Lissa Pattillo over at Kuriosity reports that Go! Comi has opened a new section for fiction in their forums.
The only post so far reads:
What’s this new section doing here?  What’s it for?  Is Go! going to publish fiction???  Keep checking back to find out more!
Is there a new light novel publisher on the market? [...]